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Effective Aid? From Paris to Accra to Doha and Beyond

Effective Aid? From Paris to Accra to Doha and Beyond. GERT DANIELSEN PROGRAMME SPECIALIST, UNDP 11 MAY 2009. TODAY’S PRESENTATION. What is the Paris Declaration (PD)? Any progress since Paris? What came out of Accra? What is the UN response? Access to more information

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Effective Aid? From Paris to Accra to Doha and Beyond

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  1. Effective Aid?From Paris to Accra to Doha and Beyond GERT DANIELSEN PROGRAMME SPECIALIST, UNDP 11 MAY 2009

  2. TODAY’S PRESENTATION • What is the Paris Declaration (PD)? • Any progress since Paris? • What came out of Accra? • What is the UN response? • Access to more information • Q&A, Discussion

  3. WHAT IS THE PARIS DECLARATION? • Millennium Summit 2000, Summit+5 • Monterrey (FfD) 2002, Rome 2003, Paris 2005, Accra 2008 (AAA), HLF4 2011 • OECD, WB, Regional Banks, civil society • Monitoring Surveys 2006 and 2008 • PD Implementation Evaluation

  4. Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, March 2005 • Who endorsed it? • 35 donor countries • 26 multilateral donor agencies • 56 countries that receive aid (recently more) • 14 civil society organisations present • Roadmap to deliver more effective aid: • 56 specific commitments • 12 indicators of progress

  5. Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness:12 Indicators of Progress (1/2) Ownership: 1. Partners have operational development strategies. Alignment: 2. Reliable country systems. 3. Aid flows are aligned on national priorities. 4. Strengthen capacity by coordinated support. 5. Use of country systems. 6. Strengthen capacity by avoiding parallel PIUs. 7. Aid is more predictable 8. Aid is untied.

  6. Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness:12 Indicators of Progress (2/2) Harmonization: 9. Use common arrangements or procedures. 10. Encourage shared analysis and joint missions. Managing for Development Results: 11. Results-oriented frameworks. Mutual Accountability: 12. Joint/independent country reviews of aid effectiveness.

  7. Paris-FfD Principles • Effective development cooperation - an integral part of global partnership for development • Development cooperation guided by a shared set of development goals, owned by all stakeholders. • National development priorities and IADGs constitute this agreed framework for development cooperation

  8. From Monterrey and Paris ECOSOC symposia and HLD Monitoring progress, CCIs, CSOs DCF Accra Sept. 2008 Doha Dec. 2008

  9. TODAY’S PRESENTATION • What is the Paris Declaration (PD)? • Any progress since Paris? • What came out of Accra? • What is the UN response? • Access to more information • Q&A, Discussion

  10. ANY PROGRESS SINCE PARIS? Ownership PDI 1 17% vs 12,5% (target 75%) Poor predictability Alignment Little progress with aid on budget Some improvement on untying Some improvement on PFM systems quality Little use of systems, no ‘quality correlation’

  11. ANY PROGRESS SINCE PARIS? Harmonisation Some progress on PBAs Some progress on joint missions, studies Managing for Development Results Challenges in monitoring national devt plans Unrealistic performance matrices Mutual Accountability Need for donor-country balance CS and parliaments to come onboard

  12. TODAY’S PRESENTATION • What is the Paris Declaration (PD)? • Any progress since Paris? • What came out of Accra? • What is the UN response? • Access to more information • Q&A, Discussion

  13. WHAT CAME OUT OF ACCRA? Accra Agenda for Action • Predictability – donors will provide 3-5 year forward information on planned ODA • Partner country systems – first option for aid delivery • Conditionality – switch from prescriptive conditions to countries’ dev’t objectives • Conditionality – conditions made public

  14. WHAT CAME OUT OF ACCRA? • Broad ownership – more engagement of civil society and parliaments; CD for all • Gender equality, environment, HR, disability – integrated into national plans • Country-led division of labour – across sectors and countries (2009) • Commitment to engage with CSOs • Situations of fragility - special efforts

  15. WHAT CAME OUT OF ACCRA? • Monitoring – donors to align with country information systems • Incentives for AE – authority to donor field offices and staff incentives • Untying – restrictions relaxed to allow best quality-lowest price purchases • Link to MDG Event and FfD Doha – SG asked to convey AAA message

  16. TODAY’S PRESENTATION • What is the Paris Declaration (PD)? • Any progress since Paris? • What came out of Accra? • What is the UN response? • Access to more information • Q&A, Discussion

  17. WHAT IS THE UN RESPONSE? • UNDG Practice Note and Action Plan • UNDG Working Party on Aid Effectiveness • Capacity development for AE implementation (DoL for agencies, funds) • UNCT implementation of the Paris Declaration • Country and CS facilitation

  18. WHAT IS THE UN RESPONSE? • Support in RRMs (CGs, RTs, JAS) • Aid policy, AIMS and PFM linkage • Peer-learning, tripartite cooperation • Sharing best practices (CoP) • CSO, gender, HR, MICs, new donors • HIV response, post-crisis contexts • UN positioning, UNCT facilitation

  19. UNDP ENGAGEMENT IN BS, FUNDS • Growing demands from governments and the recent TCPRs - reports: • “UNDP engagement in direct budget support and pooled funds” (DP/2008/36) • “The role of UNDP in the changing aid environment at the country level”, DP/2008/53) in September 2008.   • The Executive Board issued two decisions and endorsed a four-year pilot period, enabling UNDP to provide limited financial contributions to a sector budget support fund and/or pooled fund (Decisions 2008/24 and 2008/29). • Main contribution: capacity development. Soon: Respective guidance note for COs on options and approval processes

  20. OPTIONS FOR UNDP ENGAGEMENT UNDP support in a DBS environment in four ways: • Standard UNDP project for policy advisory services and capacity development support; • Managing a pooled fund upon request by a government; • Signing on to a sector budget support fund or a pooled fund as a non-fund provider or “signatory without” fiduciary obligation”, or becoming a non-signatory with observer status in the respective partnership group; • A financial contribution to a sector budget support fund or to a pooled fund. COs can undertake an appropriate combination of options

  21. TODAY’S PRESENTATION • What is the Paris Declaration (PD)? • Any progress since Paris? • What came out of Accra? • What is the UN response? • Access to more information • Q&A, Discussion

  22. ACCESS TO MORE INFORMATION www.undg.org/index.cfm?P=219 www.oecd.org/dac/effectiveness www.accrahlf.net www.devaid.org www.aideffectiveness.org UNDG: marco.baumann@undg.org NY: dasa.silovic@undp.org Panama: gert.danielsen@undp.org

  23. QUIZ OECD-DAC AAA HLF RRM AIMS TBC

  24. OBRIGADO

  25. QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION Which tools will help the CO/CT? What are CT challenges?

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